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Box office: Den of Thieves steals the top spot while Better Man flops

Box office: Den of Thieves steals the top spot while Better Man flops

Also: Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is now the top-grossing live-action video-game movie ever in North America... but not the world.

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Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson Jr. in Den of Thieves 2: Pantera.

A few of this week’s highlights:

  • Den of Thieves 2: Pantera had the best opening of any Gerard Butler film since 2019, and the best of any Lionsgate film since 2023.

  • Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is now the top-grossing live-action video-game movie ever in North America, but it is still behind five such films worldwide.

  • Babygirl had the best hold of any film in the top ten for the second week in a row.

  • Better Man, a Robbie Williams biopic that depicts the British pop star as a CGI chimp, landed well outside the top ten in North America.

And now, a few more stats and facts re: this week’s top ten, title by title:

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